If you have any interesting
stories or fun moments about Dayton in 2013, any reviews of any
forum, please send them to K8CX and I will add them to this page.

This years attendance was 24,542.

The weather on May 17, 18, 19,
2013 was sunny and humid in the low 80's on friday. Saturday was
rain and overcast in the morning. It cleared up around 11:00 AM
and had sunny skys with highs in the 70's. Sunday also had highs
in the 70's.

This years theme is "DX
Hamvention". This will reflect an important part of ham
radio: the distant contact. "Hamvention is often an
important DX destination for amateurs from all over the
globe," Hamvention General Chairman Charles Kaiser, KD8JZR,
explained. "Working DX is often a mix of magic, conditions
and the diligent application of radio theory."

Amateur of the Year (withdrawn):
Mustapha Landoulsi, DL1BDF,was named the Dayton Hamvention
Amateur of the Year for 2013. Landoulsi -- for many years a
fixture at the DARC table at Hamvention -- has been instrumental
in promoting Amateur Radio all over the world. Fluent in Arabic,
French, German and English, Landoulsi has worked tirelessly to
bring radio amateurs together in the Middle East, Africa and
other parts of the world. He established six Amateur Radio
stations in Tunisia and continues to help re-establish them after
the Arab Spring, the pro-democracy uprisings in the Middle East
and North Africa that began in December 2010. As a pilot for
Lufthansa Airlines, Landoulsi has organized the delivery of
emergency medical equipment and medicine to African countries.
The Amateur of the Year Award is given to an well-rounded radio
amateur who has contributed to and made a long term commitment to
the advancement of Amateur Radio.

The Dayton Hamvention Awards
Committee announced on April 7 that it would be withdrawing its
Amateur of the Year Award for 2013. According to Dayton
Hamvention General Chairman Charles Kaiser, KD8JZR, the committee
had received conflicting information from credible sources
regarding the accuracy of the winning nomination.

The Technical Excellence Award:
DARA named two radio amateurs -- Dave Witten, KD0EAG, and David
Rowe, VK5DGR -- as the recipients of its 2013 Technical
Excellence Award. Recognized for their FreeDV software -- a GUI application for Windows and Linux
systems that allow any SSB radio to be used for low bit rate
digital voice -- Witten and Rowe developed FreeDV using open
source Codec2 software. The Technical Excellence Award is given
to an amateur or amateurs who have made an outstanding technical
advancement in the field of Amateur Radio.

The Special Achievement Award:
George Thomas, W5JDX, was named the winner of the 2013 Special
Achievement Award for his work on Amateur
Logic TV and Ham Nation, both Internet-only broadcasts featuring Amateur Radio.
Thomas -- who co-founded Amateur Logic TV in August 2005 
serves as the shows producer and co-host. He has produced
the Smoke and Solder segment on Ham Nation for more
than 80 episodes. The Special Achievement Award is given to an
amateur or amateurs who have made an outstanding contribution,
usually spearheading a single, significant project, to the
advancement of Amateur Radio.

Amateur Radio Club of the Year:
The West Palm Beach Amateur Radio Group in West Palm Beach,
Florida was named the 2013 Amateur Radio Club of the Year. The
club was selected based on its contribution in mitigating the
effects of disaster situations, support of public service events,
Amateur Radio education and recruitment, youth programs, years of
service and number of members. The selection committee noted the
clubs work with the South Florida Science Museum, youth
recruitment, ARISS participation in the ARISS program and
training classes.

The CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame
honors those individuals, whether licensed hams or not, who have
made significant contributions to amateur radio; and those
amateurs who have made significant contributions either to
amateur radio, to their professional careers or to some other
aspect of life on our planet. The 2013 inductees (listed
alphabetically) are:

The CQ DX and Contest Halls of
Fame honor those amateurs who not only excel in personal
performance in these major areas of amateur radio but who also
"give back" to the hobby in outstanding ways.

The 2013 inductees to the CQ DX
Hall of Fame are:

* Vladimir Bykov, UA4WHX/AC4LN, has visited and operated from
over 100 DX entities in the past ten years and operated from all
six continents in 2012 alone. Has provided over 700,000 DX
contacts for hams around the world (and QSLed them all).

* Robert "Gary" Dixon, K4MQG, is a founding member of
the Carolina DX Association and as Founding President of INDEXA,
the International DX Association, which has helped support over
200 DXpeditions in the past 30 years.

The 2013 inductees to the CQ
Contest Hall of Fame are:

* Dale Green, VE7SV, is a world-class contester who has been
hosting teams of new and experienced contesters at his
superstation for the past 20 years, and recently helped start a
contest group in Chile.

* Charles "Chas" Fulp, K3WW, also a multi-award winning
contester and past president of the Frankford Radio Club (FRC),
which says Chas "is our role model and sets the standard for
other FRC members to strive to achieve."

Contest University by K3LR was
held on Thursday May 16, 2013, from 7:00 am to 5:00 pm, at the
Crowne Plaza Hotel in Dayton, Ohio. This is the day before the
Dayton Hamvention officially opens. Participants gained much
contest knowledge.

The Contest Super
Suite on the 1st floor of Crowne Plaza
Hotel in downtown Dayton was open 4 nights with free pizza all 4
nights. There were also hospitality suites on other floors of the
Crowne Plaza. There was Society of Midwest Contesters on the 4th
floor, Kansas City DX Club on the 5th floor, and Northern Ohio DX
Assn. on the 10th floor. Crowne Plaza is definately the place to
be in the evening when visiting Hamvention. Please make it a
point to join us there next year.

The Spurious Emissions Band played
Saturday night in the Contest Super Suite.

Crowne Plaza now gives a form
(second year) to fill out before leaving. This reserves you a
room (3 nights only) for the following year. This is a much
better arrangement than setting a date for you to call in.

The Dayton
2013 Photo Gallery is now up and
contains 353 photos by Tom Roscoe K8CX. Others are encouraged to submit their 2013 photos to be included on the Gallery. There
must be at least one ham in the photo that isn't already listed
on this page. There is a search engine on this page to make
checking easy. All hams in the photos must be identified by
callsign.